Before the sold-out performance Ghosts of the Convent, join us for a special conversation session with pianist and curator Anna Goldsworthy, writer Nam Le, and ANAM musicians.
Anna has mentored the musicians in creating a concert experience that responds to the complex history of the Abbotsford Convent. Working with Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author and former Convent tenant Nam Le, ANAM commissioned a new poem that became the catalyst for the project.
"Of course there is no single version of the Convent’s history, but a clamorous polyphony. In this project the young musicians of ANAM seek to give partial voice to this. It is a privilege for them to work with a writer of the stature of Nam Le, who over recent years has articulated a poetic geography of Melbourne, and now sets his sights on the Convent, with a poem ‘that evokes some of these ghosts – through the personal prism of my time there.’ Taking this poem as catalyst, our young musicians devise a musical response to the rich, charged history of the Convent, and some of its hauntings." – Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy director/curator
Nam Le author
ANAM Musicians
Photo by Beth Wilkinson
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